MAY 4-10, 2017 FACEBOOK.COM/WHATZUPFORTWAYNE • WWW.WHATZUP.COM TICKETS ON SALE NOW! TICKETS ON SALE NOW! MORE COWBELL! FROM GRAND FUNK RAILROAD 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.whatzup.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ May 4, 2017 whatzup Volume 21, Number 38 e’re getting to that “tight squeeze” part of the year in and around Fort Wayne and for what we lovingly refer to around World Headquarters as “this fine publication.” Tight squeeze because warmer weather brings Wmuch more to see and do in the Fort while the amount of available time in which to see and do it remains pretty much the same. And tight squeeze because there’s only so much we publishers can fit into 20 (or on occasion 24) tabloid pages without resort- ing to making the type really, really small. MAY 13TH 11AM-4PM We fit as much as we could into this week’s issue: Mark Hunter’s cover story on Fort We invite you and your family to join us at Coventry Meadows Campus for our Wayne Youtheatre’s Fairy Tale Fest and production of Roald Dahl’s James and the 2017 Art and Music Fest. Visit with friends, while listening to music, viewing art, Giant Peach; Steve Penhollow’s feature on the city’s 11th annual Cherry Blossom watching live demonstrations, enjoying food trucks and wine tasting. What a Festival; Amber Foster’s review of Umi, one of the fine new sushi and seafood res- neat event to show your mom you love her this Mother’s Day weekend! taurants that seem to be opening up all over town; Michele DeVinney’s Fare Warning • Live Music by local musicians Adam Strack (11am-1pm) column about the Fort Wayne Dance Collective’s Choreographer’s Lab; and three – and Todd Harrold & Nick Bobay (2-4pm) count ’em, three – reviews of community theatre productions that are keeping actors, • Food trucks such as Ragin’ Cajun, Big Apple Deli & Whip and Chill directors and technicians very, very busy at the present time. • Wine Tasting • Art vendors by local artisans You’ll find more if you look hard enough, and you’ll find expanded versions of our • Glass blowing demonstrations EVERY MOTHER WILL extremely comprehensive art and entertainment calendars online at whatzup.com. Go • Free caricature portraits & more RECEIVE A ROSE FOR there and you’ll also find stuff we can’t fit into the print issue, including such handy things as the area’s most complete listings of movie times. MOTHER’S DAY! So read on, make plans to have some fun and then go out and have it. All we ask of you is that, while you’re out there, you remember to tell everyone you meet and greet that whatzup sent you. inside the issue • features SCREENTIME ................................. 15 Fate Tops $1 Billion Worldwide FARE WARNING ............................. 17 ASCSeniorCare.com FAIRY TALE FEST ........................................4 Choreographer’s Lab A Peach of a Fairy Tale CURTAIN CALL ................................ 18 CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL .................5 Funny Little Thing Called Love Celebrating a Sister CURTAIN CALL ................................ 18 The Taming of the Shrew • columns & reviews CURTAIN CALL ................................ 19 A Wrinkle in Time SPINS ................................................6 Timothy Fife • calendars BACKTRACKS ...................................6 The Alan Parsons Project, I Robot (1977) LIVE MUSIC & COMEDY ....................7 OUT AND ABOUT ...............................7 MUSIC/ON THE ROAD .................... 11 TRF Has 8 Shows for the Price of 1 AIRING THIS WEEKEND • MAY 6 DINING OUT .................................... 10 ROAD TRIPZ ................................... 14 Umi THINGS TO DO ............................... 16 ROAD NOTEZ .................................. 11 ART & ARTIFACTS .......................... 18 Jeff McDonald & FLIX ................................................. 15 STAGE & DANCE ............................ 19 Their Finest Cover by Brandon Jordan Kenny Taylor, Sweetwater All-Stars AIRING NEXT WEEKEND • MAY 13 Soul 35 May 4, 2017 -------------------------------------------------------------------- www.whatzup.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------3 BROUGHT TO YOU BY: ----------------------------- Feature • Fairy Tale Fest ----------------------------- Allen Co. Parks & Recreation/Sol Fest .................................17 Arena Dinner Theatre/Funny Little Thing Called Love ............19 all for One Productions/A Wrinkle in Time ..............................19 Bell Tower Auctions .................................................................10 C2G Live .......................................................................................3 C2G Music Hall.........................................................................13 New Fuzz on an Old Peach Calhoun Street Soups, Salads, Spirits ..................................7 By Mark Hunter But he drops them near a dead peach they keep coming across things like Battle- tree, and overnight a single peach begins to ship and Stretch Armstrong, and the kid Columbia Street West ...............................................................8 Fort Wayne Youtheater can never be grow and grow and grow. His aunts, sensing finds the book. The story starts coming alive Coventry Meadows/Art & Music Fest 2017 .......................3 accused of shying away from a challenge. a money-making opportunity, sell tickets to when the son starts reading it to his dad. And Or from controversy. Recent productions witness the magic peach which eventually the dad is remembering it as he would have The CW .......................................................................................16 include Remembering Anne, The Kid from grows as big as a house. James finds a tunnel seen it in the mid 1980s. So the thing has a Dupont Bar & Grill.......................................................................9 Kokomo: The Ryan White Story, Ruby into the peach, climbs inside and meets the whole mid 80s feel to it.” Embassy Theatre .....................................................................13 Bridges and Lord of the Flies. curious creatures living there, and the adven- That 80s feel comes to life through The first three in that list, part of a se- ture begins. the creatures James finds inside the peach, Embassy Theatre/Tesla .............................................................8 ries called Young Heroes of Conscience, Despite the presence of a giant magi- whom Stieber modeled after that decade’s Fort Wayne Dance Collective .................................................16 were written and directed by Fort pop stars. There’s The Centi- Wayne playwright Gregory Stie- pede (Nikki Sixx), The Ladybug Fort Wayne Musicians Association ......................................16 ber and centered on the lives of (Cyndi Lauper), The Old Green Fort Wayne Youtheatre/Fairy Tale Fest ..............................15 three real children and the very Grasshopper (Dexys Midnight real challenges they faced. Stie- Runners), Miss Spider (Martha Hamilton House Bar & Grill .......................................................7 ber and the young actors of Fort Davis), The Silkworm (Morris Honeywell Center/Newsong ...................................................17 Wayne Youtheater approached Day) and The Glowworm (Belin- the stories – a young Jewish girl da Carlisle). IPFW/Community Arts Academy ..........................................16 hiding from the Nazis with her Despite the heavy music ref- Latch String Bar & Grill .............................................................9 family, a young white boy living erences, the production is not a and dying with AIDS and a young musical. But there will be lots of The League/Blues Bash ...........................................................15 black girl breaking through walls sound cues, Stieber said. Mad Anthony Brewing Co./Brewed in the Fort ......................5 of school segregation – in an un- Because the running time of flinching yet sensitive way. the play is only about an hour- Mitchell’s Sports & Neighborhood Grill ..................................7 Now Stieber and Youthe- and-a-half, Stieber had to make NIGHTLIFE .............................................................................7-10 ater actors turn their sights on changes to the storyline. Stieber a fictional English boy and his also had to amend his original Northside Galleries ....................................................................3 trials and adventures inside an script to accommodate more ac- Pacific Coast Concerts ...................................................... 2, 13 enormous piece of fruit. With tors. their production of the Roald “The script originally called PERFORMERS DIRECTORY ......................................................9 Dahl classic James and the Giant for 30, but we had over 100 audi- Rusty Spur Saloon ..................................................................13 Peach, Stieber and his cast and tion, so I cast as many as I could Sweetwater Sound ............................................................. 9, 20 crew work through the challenges possibly get away with,” he said. presented by a modern fairy tale. “All of them are being trained Teds Market .................................................................................9 The play is part of Fort Wayne right now with a British accent.” Wooden Nickel Music Stores ....................................................6 Youtheater’s